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  • After all: Mary Rose was a failure and Cutty Sark a tea-wagon.

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  • The furniture that I bought on February 3rd came to-day in good condition with the exception of one piece, the green enamel tea-wagon.

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  • He wheeled a tea-wagon on which was a miscellaneous collection of his own favourite delicacies.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • He wheeled a tea-wagon on which was a miscellaneous collection of his own favourite delicacies.

    Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931

  • Paradise came into the room, pompously wheeling a tea-wagon.

    The Black Camel Biggers, Earl Derr, 1884-1933 1929

  • And when the maid trundled in a tea-wagon, that vista of twinkling specks, and the more distant flash of Point Atkinson light intermittently stabbing the murky Gulf, was shut away by drawn blinds, and the four of them sat in the cosy room eating little cakes and drinking tea and chatting lightly of things that bulked smaller than the war.

    Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • A little boy in red clattered up with a huge tea-wagon and leaned against it, whistling and flicking his boots with a serviette.

    Bliss, and Other Stories 1920

  • Either you have to stand and sulk, like an old-fashioned German singer who wants the piano moved about for her like a tea-wagon, and the lights turned up and the lights turned down, -- or you have to be a trifle forced, like a débutante trying to make good.

    Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

  • Oh what would calm Mrs. Piper say if she could see Elinor, eyes cloudy with anger, leaning across the tea-wagon and emphasizing her points by waves of a jammy knife as she defends constancy and romance!

    Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920

  • It was Jeff who sprang to help Claire wheel in the tea-wagon, and so captured the chance to speak to her for which Milt had been maneuvering these five minutes.

    Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

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